jazzbo

They just appear to have added Billie Holiday "The Ultimate Collection" . . . two cds and a dvd for the club price of two cds.

Philip K. Dick got me interested in SF back in 1966 and he remains the writer I reread . . . . . Though it's not the science fiction but the human nature insights and philosophical and religious and political insights I read him for. . . . I haven't followed the genre for a long time! Last thing I remember waiting to come out in order to read was the final installment of the Fredrich Pohl "Gateway" series, or maybe the last installment of John Varley's "Gaea" series.

Robert, Thanks for clarifying. It's a great set, it will be in stock for some time, so I feel confident you'll have one sooner or later!

Yes. These earliest sessions are amazing.

Here are the discographic details of the material in the Eldridge set: EPs: Clef EPC 131 Roy Eldridge With Strings Clef EPC 158 Roy Eldridge And His Orchestra Clef EPC 199 The Roy Eldridge Quintet Clef EPC 200 The Roy Eldridge Quintet 10" LPs: Clef MGC 113 Roy Eldridge Collates Clef MGC 150 The Roy Eldridge Quintet Clef MGC 162 The Strolling Mr. Eldridge 12” LPs: Clef MGC 641 Roy And Diz Clef MGC 671 Roy And Diz, Vol.2 Clef MGC 683 Roy Eldridge – Little Jazz Clef MGC 704 Roy Eldridge – Rockin’ Chair Clef MGC 705 Roy Eldridge – Dale’s Wail Clef MGC 730 Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie – Trumpet Battle Clef MGC 731 Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie – The Trumpet Kings Norgran MGN 1028 Ralph Burns Among the JATPs Verve MGV 1010 Roy Eldridge and His Central Plaza Dixielanders – Swing Goes Dixie Verve MGV 2088 Roy Eldridge – That Warm Feeling Verve MGV 8068 Roy Eldridge – Little Jazz Verve MGV 8088 Roy Eldridge – Rockin’ Chair Verve MGV 8089 Roy Eldridge – Dale’s Wail Verve MGV 8109 Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie – Trumpet Battle Verve MGV 8110 Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie – The Trumpet Kings Verve MGV 8121 Ralph Burns Among the JATPs Verve MGV 8202 The Urbane Jazz of Roy Eldridge-Benny Carter Verve MGV 8212 Tour de Force Verve MGV 8389 Roy Eldridge – Swingin’ on the Town Verve PR2-3 Various Artists - The Greatest Names in Jazz (3 LPs) CDs Verve 314 521 674-2 Herb Ellis – Nothin’ But the Blues Verve 314 531 637-2 Benny Carter – New Jazz Sounds – The Urbane Sessions

I wasn't trying to be harsh. I just wasn't clear whether he realized it was in print. I could see that if one didn't frequent the webpages one might wonder about sets.

It's still WAY in print from www.mosaicrecords.com

If you haven't gotten it already, "A Day in New York" from Morelenbaum2Sakamoto is fantastic for summer listening!

Fantastic, I'm very happy for you!

June's Got Rythmn is excellent; I have a TOCJ and really dig it. Very excited about Domination; my lp is not primo. And unreleased Cannon? I'm happy! Jazzcat, I dig Kenton, just finished listning to "Viva Kenton." I need still more. . . .

My favorite Jazz Casuals are the ones with Rushing, Basie, Pops and Cannon. . . of those I've seen those ara topnotch! There is better Pepper out there. . .for sure !

I'll buy it. . . and I only have to walk about 500 feet to do so!

I always celebrate the August 4th birtday. . . . But I'll play some Armstrong today for sure!

I hope all is well also.

Me too!

I'm looking forward to the Eddie Condon as well, because it's a great lp and it will have extra material!

Hmmm. . .I like this set but as far as Mosaic vocal sets go. . . I like the Bailey and the Lee/Christy better.

That's just my opinion of course.

Ros, I have all the Richards lps but one I think, so the stuff is there and been able to be listened to for years. I just don't dig it as much as you seem to. Ah well!

I've been enjoyiing the set since #91 hit my door a week ago or so. It's not essential, it's commercial swing music more than anything like serious jazz, it has charm and it is very well recorded and remastered. (Malcolm Addey doing his usual excellent job, though in this and many of his Mosaic works, we should also be thanking and lauding the TRANSFER engineers). I have had the tracks with T-Bone Walker a looooonnnnngggg time, and the Ella Mae Morse selections for some time (I really dig the Bear Family set, and the material here sounds better here!) So I knew I would dig this. The new Select I have resisted so far is the Johnny Richards; I have a lot of the material and don't play it much, it doesn't really send me.

NO. . . I don't have cable so I can't see it. . . is it as bad as I think it might be and as some of the reviews say it is? Or is it fascinating?

From what I know of horn speakers, it's more than just these being "big" for dumb people. These should give incredible presence and dynamics, and are extremely efficient allowing one to use very low powered amplifiers, which in my experience can give the very best of sound. I'd love to have this set up. . . maybe as a second system. . . -_-

I still think it's motivated by what sells, and these divas want to be front and center popular and you have to sell like crazy to keep that up. Producers can be 'suasive, specially if he can predict a continuation of an overthetop lifestyle. So I agree with you too that the artist buys into the diva thing and their specialness. . . partly too that could be under the producer/label influence. But bottom line is (as I see it) they could be so much better, these records. But they won't be.

I doubt it. Some people have a lot of money. I bet that system sounds incredible!

Hmmm. . . maybe . . . and maybe it's the will of the producer? It SELLS. Unfortunately.